Market Pulse: Being Realistic in a Gloomy End

Fortune seems not to favor Indonesia at years end. Instead, negative signals have appeared. Mother nature herself joined in testing Indonesias vigor with the eruption of Mount Agung and floods in several areas of Java and Sumatra, due to extreme weather. There is no choice: the government must be more realistic in looking at economic conditions, and take preemptive steps to face the hard times ahead.

Young coconut shell was on the lunch menu of Fransisca Patatcot and her son on Saturday two weeks ago. Sitting next to each other on the wooden porch of the Santo Petrus Paulus Church, Pulau Tiga District, Asmat Regency, Papua, they snacked on the coconut shell. When the coconut shell was finished, she began eating the husk.